Photo Freedom Giveaway.

I have a hard time deciding which photos to use when I have more than enough for a project. This is why I don't scrapbook holidays or birthdays. I find it easier to scrap the daily doings of my boys. I have just begun to attempt to organize the 1000s of photos I do have printed into another photo case. Labeling them and everything! Who knew...labeling?

i thought i was pretty photo-organized. but, everything that is not currently involved is stored digitally (chronological). And unless, I KNOW where to look for something, it takes me forever to find the shot. that gets frustrating. there must be a betterway.

Hi Ali-
You are so generous to be giving away one of Stacy's book. How cool.
My biggest photo challenge would be having a system in place so that when I do print my pics or download them it's easy. Right now I don't have a system. My word for the yaer is ENJOY and I could enjoy my pictures, my space, my work more if I could figure out a great system....Sounds like this book would be PERFECT for me.

My biggest photo problem is deciding how to organize them: by person? by event? by year? I don't know how to put them in an order I can scrapbook. I am getting a digital camera soon, and I'm sure this problem will not go away!

Oh Ali - what a question, you've hit a nerve! My biggest struggle is the whole "management" thing surrounding my family's old heritage photos, slides and negatives! As family historian I have tons of old photos going back to the 1920s, daguerrotypes from the 1800s, plus tons of slides and negatives (at last count I have negatives in 4 different sizes) which I have inherited. Although I have scanned many of them, how do I organize and store the countless old items in any decent order (other than by physical format ...) And of course you can't throw these heritage items away, even if you've scanned the originals.
Then, to make matters worse, after originally scanning the pictures and slides a few years ago, in the past few years I've learned so much more about my scanner's capabilities that I rescanned many old items to improve their quality! So now on my computer I have to find the old-old scans and the new-old scans and determine which are the better quality for keeping .. and try to cross-reference the digital copies somehow with the original old items (in whatever format) ugh!
I've even spent hours touching up old photos using PSE, only to realize I'd already touched-up the slide version of the same picture before - see what I mean?
And then there is the organization nightmare of sharing with family, who change the filenames because they think the dates are wrong and resend them back to me ... ugh again!
I am really struggling. Though I can feel good that I have these old items physically preserved for future generations, and that many are scanned and stored in a basic chronological order on my computer, can I make this any easier somehow? Trying to be the family historian is very tough in the digital age ...

I haven't taken pics in forever. I took a break from scrapping and stuff. This would be a great start to get back into it!!!
Biggest photo struggle... getting over the fact that I can just take a picture of "life" and not anything specific.

My biggest struggle is lighting and knowing when to take my camera off of "auto" and do it on my own.

I wish I knew how to manipulate my photos to look like those taken by Elsie and Tara and the others ... someone please do some tutorials!!

My biggest struggle is trying to find the picture I want when I want it. I did take Stacy's class last year and most of my printed/old pictures are at least in chrono order. The ones on my computer at in fairly chrono order also. But there's just so many of them!

Right now my biggest struggle would probably be my memorabilia or my digital organization. I need help!!

My biggest struggle is organizing them!!!!

I have a hard time deleting a photo...

Hi Ali!
My biggest problem seems to be shared by a few posters - not wanting to print digital photos until I've "cleaned" them up a bit in Photoshop. I've noticed an overall color difference in digital versus film and have not been as happy with the digital prints I have had done. I may try the place you recommended a while ago (I've got it bookmarked somewhere) to see if it's just the service (Snapfish) I'm using. Thanks for sharing a free copy of the book with us!
Kathy

One of my biggest struggles is that I feel like I have to edit each picture before I get them printed and because of that, nothing gets printed.

My biggest photo struggle is knowing when to hit the "delete" button on my computer. I am a packrat by nature, and very sentimental, and I'm always concerned that I will delete a photo that will be really meaningful to me in a few years. I do delete some of my photos, but I think that I probably need to do it more often. I took over 12,000 photos last year, so not deleting more often is a problem!

Simple: TOO MANY PHOTOGRAPHS.

Hi Ali
Without a doubt the biggest challenge is printing the photos I take- I think my isssue with this is what to do with them once they are printed- I know I won't scrap them immediately....at least on the computer they are semi-organized.
I miss touching and feeling my photos : (

Thanks for introducing me to this book. It is on my list now. :)
Currently, my husband and I are trying to figure out a way to catalog our digital photos. All of our photos are digital and we take a lot of them. Finding a way to sort them into folders that makes sense is a real challange!

After reading your book Life Artist....I have no photo problems..I am ok with it all.
thanks.jennyc

Biggest photo problem - reluctant to print them because then I have to 'do' something with them!